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Conference noted::bicycle

Title:	Bicycling
Notice:	Bicycling for Fun
Moderator:	JAMIN::WASSER

Created:	Mon Apr 14 1986
Last Modified:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	3214
Total number of notes:	31946

3040.0. "Marzocchi's "reliability" ???" by LEMAN::MARTIN_A () Thu Jan 11 1996 05:32

    Living in Switzerland, I recently discovered MTB and decided to
    buy a bike (equipped with a Marzocchi XC700 suspension).
    
    Talking to people having more experience on MTB than me and to
    some MTB dealers afterwards make me feel Marzocchi has not a 
    very good reputation about it's "reliability".
    
    It seem that a lot of forks suffered from "oil leak" and other
    troubles...to the point that a certain dealer told me he had
    so many trouble with Marzocchi's that he doesn't want to sell
    them any more!
    
    Personnaly I feel quite happy with my bike (and fork) but I feel
    a bit afraid of what could happen to my fork...and wonder if I
    shouldn't have bought a "Rock Shox MAG21" or "Manitou 5" instead 
    which seem much more reliables (to the feedback I had) ! 
    
    
    I would appreciate your personnal experiences on Marzocchi's !
    
    Cheers,
    
    
    Alain

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
3040.1	Shocks	ENQUE::MCGOWAN		`Thu Jan 11 1996 10:42`	3
	Check out the shock topic in the MTB conference.
3040.2	Ok, but pointer to the MTB conference ?	LEMAN::MARTIN_A		`Thu Jan 11 1996 10:59`	10
	Hi, >> Check out the shock topic in the MTB conference. Do you have the pointer to the MTB conference ??? I didn't find it in my easynotes.lis file ! Cheers, Alain
3040.3	not to worry!	CGOOA::MOL	THINK BICYCLE	`Thu Jan 11 1996 17:55`	15
	I bought the Zokes XCR in May of last year and they have been really great. Some days I really give them a beating on tough terrain and other days, on easier trails, I don't even know they are working until I swap bikes with me. I did shop around and I think you made a fine choice. Dealers are hardly a subjective source for critical comment. Dealers love them when they sell them and hate them when they don't. Everything has a limit though. The first shocks Maz built didn't sell because they were so heavy. They were built with their knowledge based on motorcycles. Now that the weight and amount of movement is competitive, critics lament what has been lost from the design. Your 700 are good shocks built by a respectable company and they perform very well for the $. Who makes `the best shock in the world' is debatable. Very debatable! Have fun. bruce
3040.4	It's very reliable	FABSIX::S_ARCHAMBEAU		`Sat Jan 13 1996 20:49`	19
	Marzocchi is a great fork. A lot of shops don't like them because they are not a catalog item yet which means they can't jack up the price. The top of the line Marzocchi fork compares to the Rock Shox Judy SL in both weight and travel. It actually performs a little better and is easier to maintain. With elastomer forks you are supposed to change the elastomers once a year to maintain performance. With the Marzocci all you do is drain the old oil and fill it with new, and new oil costs about $5.00 a quart and a quart will change the oil a dozen times over. Rock Shox need fork boots and Marzocci doesn't because of the way it's sealed. As far as leaking I've never heard of anyone having a problem with that, but I have heard of it with the Judy oil cartrige. If you take a Judy oil cartrige out of the fork you can slide it in and out to simulate stutter bumps but if you slam it on a table to simulate a big hit it will lock up and won't move, I have a Rock Shox Judy DH and my wife has the Marzocci XC700, trust me the XC700 is the better of the two. It also cost far less. -Shawn 8^)